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BY YUSUKE KANNO AND SEIICHIRO UTANO THE ASAHI SHIMBUN The Yanba Dam in Naganohara, northwestern Gunma Prefecture, has become a typical example of a public works project that no longer matches the times. Question: The cost of...
The scene that unfolded early Friday at the Diet was all too reminiscent of the era under Liberal Democratic Party rule. The three-party ruling coalition led by the Democratic Party of Japan steamrolled a debt relief bill for...
Family members and friends bid farewell to actor Hisaya Morishige, who died Nov. 10 aged 96, at his funeral in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Friday. More than 1,000 mourners, including former Prime Minister ...
A former state-funded aide of Ai Aoki, pictured right, a Lower House member of the Democratic Party of Japan, said he was forced by an aide to DPJ bigwig Ichiro Ozawa, pictured left, to donate part of...
BY KOTA TAKEDA AND TATSUYUKI KOBORI THE ASAHI SHIMBUN For needle-shy patients who dread few things as much as a shot in the arm, there is reason to relax. Nasal spray vaccine is already used in the United States, while research...
Big Beer Makers Vie for Chinese Brewers The world's big brewers are circling Chinese beer companies such as Tsingtao Beer and Snow Beer. China Beer Plants In the last few years, the numbers of beer factories remained at around...
A British medical journal has retracted a clinical study submitted by a team of Japanese researchers, after another study group questioned the credibility of its results. The paper, published in The ...
A look at the future of the transistor from the Solid State Devices and Materials Conference (SSDM) October 30, 2009 I’m writing this on the plane from Narita airport to Portland as I return from giving the plenary talk at the...
Saturday 21st November, 04:00 AM JST TOKYO — Kabuki actor Ebizo Ichikawa, 31, and newscaster Mao Kobayashi, 27, revealed in a fax signed by both this week that they were heading down the road toward marriage, with plans to tie...
Saturday 21st November, 05:49 AM JST CHIBA — A Spanish man was given a 10-year prison term and a 5 million yen fine in a lay jury trial Friday for smuggling illegal stimulants to Japan in May, despite his plea of being...
